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Are you wondering if Drupal is the right content management framework for your library website? Have you already made the leap and need to learn some best practices for managing a Drupal site? Our three-part workshop will bring everyone up to speed.

We'll discuss:

Why Drupal is a great fit for library websites (and even some scenarios when it might not be).

How to evaluate the goals for your website project to choose the right platform.

Getting everyone on your team involved in the website without putting your content at risk using the Workbench suite.

Code is so many things, and is a critical part of how we create and share information in the 21st century. That's why it's so important to teach kids -- and librarians -- how to do it!

Join us for a hands-on workshop with Sylvia Aguinaga on the what, why, and how of coding in the 21st century. She will present context for the significance of code-literacy today and demoing tools she uses to teach coding, including Scratch, a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations (http://scratch.mit.edu/).

Should the Online Librarian be “Liam the Librarian” or “Lily the Librarian”?

Join us in-person or via webcast to learn the basics of data visualization and charts to present data sets on the web with no programming. Kristian Allen from the Digital Library Program at UCLA Library will cover the proper format to structure your data for use with common web tools and review some popular charting and visualization frameworks available, including Google Charts and Fusion tables.

LACASIS&T is putting out a call for example library datasets to be visualized during the session.

Merry everything! Come celebrate the holiday season with your friends and colleagues at LACASIS&T’s holiday party on December 11th, 2014, where we will cheers to the wonderful year we shared and all we have to look forward to in 2015.

We’re partnering with the Special Libraries Association’s Southern California Chapter (SLA-SCC), and new partners, California Librarians Black Caucus (CLBC) for this special event. There will be mixing, mingling, delicious food, cocktails, and a DJ and dance floor!!

Have you wondered what it is like to work in a museum and in a library and archives department within the institution? Interested in learning more about the interdisciplinary approaches to such an institution?

Agenda items:
- Website hosting
- Event for November (meet face to face and re-group) and January (educational presentation)
- Status of student group
- Please message/comment with any other items you'd like to cover